Bessemer

Leader in Steel Silo Design and Manufacture

Bessemer is a diversified company whose principal activities in the contracting field include structural steelwork, steel bins and silos, either as a main contractor on a turnkey basis supplying a total project management and construction service, or as a sub-contractor by way of consultants, architects, builders, etc. to all parts of South Africa and neighbouring states.

We have 60 years of experience in the agricultural industry with the design, manufactured erection of steel silos, and due to the need for allied services, storage sheds and workhouses, developed the technology for the design, manufacture, supply and erection, including drawing office facilities, for all types of structural steelwork for warehouses, stores, building, workshops, office blocks, mill buildings, chutework, etc.

Bessemer has already achieved great success with these steel silos in South Africa and overseas due to the greater economy of the steel constructions compared with cement silos. The double galvanizing is of a particularly high standard to ensure an extremely long life.

All the complexes are designed and manufactured by skilled technicians in Bessemer's own factory. An extensive technical division offers all the necessary know-how and expertise to guarantee work of the most exacting standards.

Only the finest steel, bearing the approval of the South African Bureau of Standards and meeting the Bureau's exacting demands, is used. Use is also frequently made of the testing facilities at the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research offices to ensure advanced designs for the manufacture of advanced silos.

Bessemer was responsible for the design and erection of some of the biggest galvanized steel silos in Africa ranging from 30m diameter to 38m diameter and a height of 25.5m.

Watertight and versatile

A Bessemer silo is watertight and safeguards its content from rodents. Of great importance is the fact that the storage costs per metric tone offered by these silos represent the lowest possible cost structure. They can be speedily erected and eliminate the use of heavy and expensive conventional foundations. Since they are made of steel, they offer versatility in design, allowing easy changes or extensions to the silo complex ... at the lowest cost. This feature also makes for easy dismantling and re-erection on another site.

The elimination of bags and the low maintenance costs of the silos also make them an exceptionally economical proposition for the grain farmer. Extensions are often necessary when an excess of a particular type of grain is delivered at a silo. But because the existing silo makes provision for the necessary division of compartments, the largest bin possible is required to store any one type of grain in bulk.

In such cases Bessemer can provide the ideal bin which can easily be adapted to any extension up to a capacity of 25,764 metric tone per unit.